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Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf
Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book examines how portrait photographs appeared as literary motifs in the works of three modernist writers with personal experience of the medium: Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. Combining perspectives from literary, visual and media studies, Marit Grotta discusses these writers' ambivalent views on portrait photographs and the uncertain status of technical images in the early twentieth century more generally. In reconsidering the attention paid to analogue photographs in literature, this book throws light on both modernist reactions to portrait photography and on our relationships to photographs today.
On Literary Plasticity
On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’, for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world. In this book, Heather H. Yeung builds a past and future ecology of plastic, arguing that it is through a deep reading of literature that we can begin to understand more clearly what it is that plastic means to us today, asking, under the auspices of the idea of literary plasticity: what are the true depths of our twenty-first-century fascination with plastic? How did we become so entangled? How can we come to a better understanding of plastic’s role in our imagination, our environment, and our lives? What can literature teach us in this respect? Why should we care?
At the Limit of the Obscene
As German-language literature turned in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, a corresponding anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction—with consequences not only for realist poetics but also for the conception of the material world itself. At the Limit of the Obscene examines the roots and repercussions of this anxiety in German realist and postrealist literature. Through analyses of works by Adalbert Stifter, Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, Arno Holz, Gottfried Benn, and Franz Kafka, Erica Weitzman shows how German realism’s conflicted representations of the material world lead to an idea of the obscene as an excess of sensual appearance beyond human meaning: the obverse of the anthropocentric worldview that German realism both propagates and pushes to its crisis. At the Limit of the Obscene thus brings to light the troubled and troubling ontology underlying German realism, at the same time demonstrating how its works continue to shape our ideas about representability, alterity, and the relationship of human beings to the non-human well into the present day.
Ethics of Alterity
Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, the book contributes to the theory of alterity in Performance Philosophy, while stimulating and inspiring future inquiries where studies in media, art, and literature intersect with philosophy. It collects a selective as well as productive diversity of philosophical, literary, and artistic figures of thought, attaining an exacting framework as a result of a clearly elaborated ethics of alterity, innovatively opened up by way of an aisthetics of existence: Touching upon the Aristotelian concept of aisthesis, the material, perceptual and sensory dimensions of everyday bodily existence are highlighted to move beyond what aesthetics in Modern Phi...
Beloved Pain
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Known and Strange Things
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature - many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe - Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people and historical moments. Cole tells of his engagement with Virginia Woolf through her diaries, before reflecting on an episode of temporary blindness in New York. He looks at the rise of Instagram and interrogat...
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Blind Date mit der Zukunft
Putins Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine ist das singuläre Ereignis, das das Jahr 2022 markiert, geprägt, für immer gezeichnet hat. Spannende Gäste beleuchteten anlässlich der Veranstaltungen des SIAF in diesem Zusammenhang die weitere und nähere Vergangenheit. Sie ordnen den Krieg und die Krisen ein, erklären die Auswirkungen und spannen den Bogen zu Empfehlungen und Hoffnung. Es sieht auch in den weiteren Entwicklungen der aktuellen Zeit nicht danach aus, als würde dem SIAF der Stoff ausgehen, und Orientierung tut im 80. Jahr des Instituts weiterhin Not. Die SIAF-Jahrbücher erlauben es, spannende Vorträge herausragender Persönlichkeiten in Ruhe nachzulesen. Mit Beiträgen von Peter Altmaier, Alena Buyx, Nina Chruschtschowa, John Elkann, Markus Gabriel, Ivan Krastev, Herfried Münkler, Chris Patten, Michael J. Sandel, Serhij Schadan, Adam Tooze.
Abschied von der heilen Welt
Zum laufenden Krieg in der Ukraine kam 2023 ein neuer Angriff, der Überfall der Hamas auf Israel. Die turbulente Weltlage erwies sich als traurig passend zu dem Stoff, den die Veranstaltungen des SIAF bieten, im Jahr 2023 mit einem Fokus auf Freiheit und Sicherheit. Erneut beleuchteten spannende Gäste in diesem Zusammenhang Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und eine mögliche Zukunft. Mit Beiträgen von Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Christoph Heusgen, Ben Hodges, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Solmaz Khorsand, Ahmad Mansour, Jens Spahn, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Michael Wolffsohn, Lea Ypi
